Susana Raab was born in Lima, Peru and raised throughout the United States. She is a fine art and documentary photographer based out of Washington, D.C. She is currently working on her long-term documentation of the east of the Anacostia River communities in D.C. and is the photographer of the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum. Raab’s work has been exhibited internationally and nationally, at venues including: the Corcoran Museum of Art, the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Madrid, the Pingyao Photo Festival, Noorderlicht Fotofestival in the Netherlands, and the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, D.C. She received her MA in Visual Communications at Ohio University and holds a BA in English Literature from James Madison University. (Photo shot in McArthur, OH, USA 2004.)